V

Vaccination, 7 , 101 ;

compulsory, 104 -5, 107 ;

smallpox, 179 (fig. 5);

voluntary, 321

Vaccination Inquirer , 104

Vaccine, 292

Van Gelder, Lindsy, 225

Vapors:

and cholera, 45 ;

poisonous, 39 .

See also Miasmas

"Vectors of infection," 208 , 252 n86

Venereal disease (VD), 7 , 32 n20, 77 , 106 -7, 109 ;

compulsory treatment of, 138 ;

in Crimean War, 105 ;

feminine personifications of, 235 n2;

social history of, 163 ;

"insontium " (innocent), 148 , 150 , 155

Venereal Disease Control Office of the Third Service Command, 135

Vermont, polio in, 48

"Vertical Transmission" of AIDS, 211

Victim-blaming, 165

Victimization of patients, 167

Victorian:

anxieties, 151 ;

social and sexual systems, 150

Village Voice , The , 212 , 227

Viral:

hypothesis, 285 ;

infection, 6 ;

theory, 284 -91

Virologists, 9 , 203 , 209 , 248 n49.

See also names of specific virologists

Virology, 13 , 28 ;

and AIDS research, 9 ;

and polio research, 51 ;

success of, 10

Virus, 202 -3

Visiting nurses, 49 , 52 -53

Vogue , 216

Volition, and susceptibility to disease, 18 , 22 , 27

Voluntary:

clinics, 110 , 112 ;

screening, 160

Volunteerism, 312

Volunteer workforce on AIDS, 217 -18